in greece they do not have an effective tax system, and people cheat left and right. we are starving the irs. i've been talking to people inside the irs whose units have been cut 30, 40, 50% in personnel, and they're not auditing, and they're not going after the tough cases that will mean the less money for the government and the less money for all government services and cause real serious problems. so in that sense we are heading toward greece by taking away a great tax system and replacing wit a weakened one. >> why are these changes taking place in the irs? why are they not being as aggressive as they used to be? >> well, because for years now, the republicans have attacked the irs. and at one point, you may recall, i broke the story years ago that you were actually more likely to be audited if you were poor than if you were affluent. we've cut radically the audits of corporations. and the irs now tells corporations, well we'll only audit you on these issues and you have this many days. we'll close the audit whether we're done or not. that's not really doing the j